The American Bar Association is organising a conference "Anti-trust in Asia: Developments in India's competition regime". The conference is being held in New Delhi on 30 November, 2012 and 1 December, 2012.
Ms. Vijaya Sampath, Senior Partner & Country Head, Corporate Practice, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is speaking in the session "Competition versus Regulation—Which will yield? A discussion o...

A vast majority of assessees comply with tax laws and pay taxes diligently. However, due to complex wording of statutory provisions, contrary instructions issued by revenue authorities, conflicting judgments and also due to genuine differences in interpretation, the investigating agencies may conclude that there is loss of revenue.
The revenue agencies conduct investigations against genuine ...

Annual Forum on Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation
29th & 30th January, 2013, Amsterdam
The 2013 Annual Pharma & Biotech Litigation Forum will be organised in Amsterdam. The focus will be on latest case law developments in Europe and the US and the impact of these decisions on the industry. The speakers will include judges, key regulators and in house counsel handling patent litigation.
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November 5-6, 2012, Hong Kong
The International Bar Association Corporate and M&A Law Committee, in association with the IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum is organising a two day conference on Mergers and Acquisitions.
The conference will cover a broad range of topics like acquisition finance, joint venture transactions in Asia with case studies on Asia outbound investments. A session ha...

The Institute of Business Laws, in association with Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, is organizing seminars on Foreign Trade Policy and Export Promotion Schemes to guide exporters, importers, manufacturers and service exporters. The seminars are being held in the following places:
New Delhi - 12th October, 2012
Chennai - 2nd November, 2012
Bangalore - 9th November, 2012 These seminars will fo...

The AIPPI's 43rd World Intellectual Property Congress will be held in Seoul, South Korea from 20th October to 23 October, 2012. The Congress will have working committee meetings, plenary sessions, pharma workshops and a few general sessions.
IP experts from world over will participate in this event, Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran, Managing Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, India will be the moderat...

The crisis in EU has presented M&A opportunities for the Indian and EU corporate sector. With good valuations, EU seems to be attractive today for the Indian business for takeovers and acquisitions.
India's resilience and moderate growth makes it one of the ideal choices for EU to invest. While mergers & acquisitions have been happening in several sectors, pharma, finance, FMCG, infrastructu...

The Institute of Business Laws, in association with Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, is organizing a seminar on ‘New Service Tax Regime – Works Contracts, EPC Contracts & Construction Contracts’ on 23rd August, 2012 in Chennai.
This seminar is intended to guide service providers, works contractors, EPC contractors, manufacturers engaging contractors and entities involved in infrastructure, constr...

The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), India will organise an international symposium on ‘Innovation and Technology in Arbitration’. The conference will be held on 7th July, 2012 in Bangalore.
Focussing on how technological tools and solutions can aid in reducing cost and time involved in arbitration, the session will cover use of witness-conferencing besides giving an insig...

IPEX-2012 - the IP conference organised by APTDC and CII, will be held in Hyderabad on 27-28 July, 2012. The theme of the conference is "Monetising and Managing IP Assets for Business Excellence".
The 2 day meet is intended to develop an understanding on advanced concepts of IP management with specific focus on MSMEs besides providing a forum to learn about the implications of various tools ...

Sports betting is a form of gambling involving money and speculating outcome of an event. Betting market is estimated at Rs. 3 lakh crores in India. From morality angle to religious curbs, sports betting is also viewed in certain quarters as morally neutral.
Regulating sports betting can be a revenue gainer for the exchequer. The conference on 6th June, 2012 in New Delhi organised by FICCI w...

Assocham is organising an international conference on Intellectual Property Rights. The meet titled “Harnessing Intellectual Property for Strategic Competitiveness - Electronics, IT & Engineering Sector (SME’s)” will be held on 31st May, 2012 in Chandigarh.
Indian SMEs are engaged in in-house innovation of software and IT tools to become competitive globally. In the absence of adequate aware...